You’re probably using the pedometer feature available through your iPhone’s Health app – but you should know that with a little digging you can access some amazing data on the way you walk, especially the stability of your gait, otherwise. says whether you take one step after another symmetrically or not. This data is collected automatically, and it’s quite surprising how much the iPhone you always carry in your pocket knows about your health and posture.
Apple explains: “In the case of a balanced gait, the duration of each step is very similar from one foot to the other. Gait asymmetry is the time difference (in percentage) between the faster or slower foot and the other foot. Thus, the lower the percentage of asymmetry, the more balanced your gait. An unbalanced gait, such as a limp, can be a sign of an illness, injury, or other health problem. A balanced or symmetrical gait is often an important physical rehabilitation goal following an injury.”
How to access your gait stability and asymmetry info on iPhone
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And the firm to continue: “your iPhone may register an asymmetrical gait automatically when you carry it close to your waist, such as in your pocket, and walk with a steady step on flat ground.” In other words, this data collected without you having been specifically warned, automatically, can be very useful if you have just undergone rehabilitation, or to detect an underlying health problem that a doctor will help you with. to be identified and treated. All iPhone owners have access to this information in their health app.
Nevertheless, for some reason that escapes us, the firm preferred to “hide” the “Gait stability” menu in the application. To access it and view your score:
- Open the app Health on your iPhone
- Touch View all health data
- Go down to Gait asymmetry Where Gait stability and touch the map
In addition to the asymmetry and stability of the gait, there are other data that are quite surprising in terms of their precision on your gait. For example, your iPhone can tell you quite precisely what is the average length of your steps (for the author of these lines, about fifty centimeters), the number of floors climbed, or your double tap time, in other words how many times a day your two feet touch the ground at the same time (score which should ideally be between 20 and 40).
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Also if you enable notifications Gait stability your iPhone will be able to send you a notification to tell you if you have an increased risk of having a serious fall in the current year. As you can see, even without an Apple Watch, the iPhone provides access to much more than the pedometer in the Health app…
